Your Do-It-Yourself Sestina.

The author presents his views on the sestina poetic form. He thinks that it is the most rigid of poetic forms. He notes the do-it-yourself (DIY) sestina "What Does the Piece Remind You Of?," which was part of three DIY sestinas to be presented at the Phillips Collection Museum in Washington, D.C., for the exhibit "Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition."